GUEST OPINION: Graduated tax pushes back on growing inequality
When you don’t have the facts on your side, a tried and true political tactic is to engage in fearmongering and create so much smoke that the truth becomes the first casualty. That’s exactly what Michael Fields, president of Advance Colorado, has attempted to do in his op-ed defaming the graduated income tax measure – […]
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